Saint John Centre (electoral district) explained

Saint John Centre
Province:	New Brunswick
Prov-Status:	defunct
Prov-Created:	1795
Prov-Abolished:	1973
Prov-Election-First:	1795
Prov-Election-Last:	1970

Saint John Centre was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from Saint John in 1795 as Saint John City. It was renamed Saint John Centre in 1967.

It elected multiple members through the bloc voting system -- two members prior to 1892 and four members from 1892 to 1973.

It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
Saint John City Riding created from Saint John
3rd	1795 – 1802		George Younghusband	Ind.			Nathan Smith	Ind.
4th	1802 – 1809						John Robinson	Ind.
5th	1809 – 1810			John Garrison	Ind.		Stephen Humbert	Ind.
	1810 – 1816			John Robinson	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819		Harry Peters	Ind.
7th	1820
8th	1821 – 1827					Hugh Johnston, Jr.	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1830			Gregory Van Horne				Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834			Thomas Barlow	Ind.			William Boyd Kinnear	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837			Lewis Burns	Ind.		Isaac Woodward	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842			Thomas Barlow	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846		Robert Leonard Hazen	Cons.			Lewis Burns	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850						Isaac Woodward	Ind.
15th	1851			Samuel Leonard Tilley^[1]	Cons.		William Hayden Needham	Ind.
	1851 – 1854		James A. Harding	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856						Samuel Leonard Tilley	Cons.
17th	1856 – 1857						Joseph Wilson Lawrence	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861					Samuel Leonard Tilley	Cons.
19th	1862 – 1865			Charles Watters				Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866		Andrew Rainsford Wetmore	Cons.			Jacob Valentine Troop	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1867						Samuel Leonard Tilley^[2]	Cons.
	1867 – 1870						William H.A. Keans	Ind.
22nd	1870 – 1874			Aaron Alward	Ind.		William Wedderburn	Ind.
23rd	1875 – 1876			William H.A. Keans^[3]	Ind.
	1876 – 1878		Robert Marshall	Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882
25th	1883 – 1886		John Valentine Ellis^[4]	Lib.			Ezekiel McLeod	Cons.
26th	1886 – 1887					John Berryman	Lib.
	1887 – 1890		Silas Alward	Lib.
27th	1890 – 1892					A.C. Smith	Ind.
28th	1892 – 1895								Alfred Augustus Stockton	Cons.		William Shaw	Lib.-Con.
29th	1896 – 1899						Charles B. Lockhart							Cons.
30th	1899 – 1903		George Robertson	Ind.		Harrison A. McKeown^[5]	Lib.-Con.		Daniel S. Purdy	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1904											Edward Lantalum	Ind.
	1905 – 1908					Robert Maxwell	Ind.
32nd	1908 – 1912		John Edward Wilson	Ind.						James P. McInerney	Ind.			Warren Franklin Hatheway	Cons.
33rd	1912 – 1917					Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley	Cons.			Charles B. Lockhart	Cons.			Phillip Grammen	Ind.
34th	1917 – 1920			John R. Campbell				Cons.			Frank L. Potts	Cons.		William F. Roberts	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925			Walter Edward Foster	Lib.			Robert Thomas Hayes	Cons.			William Edward Scully				Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930		Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley	Cons.			James Lewis	Cons.		W. Henry Harrison	Cons.		Miles E. Agar	Cons.
37th	1931 – 1935						Walter W. White	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939			A. P. Paterson	Lib.			William F. Roberts	Lib.			Horace A. Porter	Lib.			E. J. Henneberry	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944			Ralph McInerney	Cons.			W. Grant Smith	Cons.			W. J. Swanton	Cons.			J. Starr Tait	Cons.
40th	1944 – 1948				PC				PC			Lawrence T. Dow	PC				PC
41st	1948 – 1952			James W. Brittain	Lib.			Harold Gault	Lib.			S. Roy Kelly	Lib.			Robert H. Carlin	Lib.
42nd	1952 – 1956		Donald D. Patterson	PC		Arthur Skaling	PC			Harold S. Prince	PC		George E. McInerney	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960								George L. Keith	PC
44th	1960 – 1963						R. M. Pendrigh				PC
45th	1963 – 1966						Daniel Aloysius Riley^[6]	Lib.		John D. MacCallum	Lib.
	1966 – 1967						Stephen Weyman	Lib.
Saint John Center
46th	1967 – 1970		J. Lorne McGuigan	PC		George E. McInerney^[7]	PC			Donald D. Patterson	PC		Robert J. Higgins	Lib.
47th	1970 – 1972								Eric Teed	PC
	1973 – 1974						John W. Turnbull				Lib.
Riding dissolved into Saint John Harbour, Saint John North, Saint John Park and Saint John South

Election results

Saint John City

Notes and References

1. resigned
2. elected to federal seat
3. died in 1876
4. elected to federal seat
5. resigned to run federally in 1904
6. appointed chairman of the New Brunswick Motor Carrier Board and Public Utilities Commission in 1966
7. died on 25 November 1972